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09 January 2010

The JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) has been updated with some 104,500 new records and 20,700 new photos.

JOWBR has added 118 new cemeteries, and updates/additions to 99 more cemeteries in 15 countries. The database now includes more than 1.3 million records from more than 2,500 cemeteries (or sections) in 45 countries.

-- At AJA, volunteers will help create searchable databases from paper holdings at the archives for inclusion in JOWBR.

-- The JCRP, which restores abandoned Jewish cemeteries in the US, will be adding burial records from those sites to JOWBR. Readers who may know of such abandoned sites, should contact Harley Felstein.

The latest database update included:

-- NORTH AMERICA

Cincinnati, Ohio - 10,800 funeral records from the Weil Funeral home and AJA.

1 comment:

Tallinn, Estonia Cemetery records are digitized and are available at the website http://www.kalmistud.ee The site contains records from the Tallinn Jewish Cemetery but can only be searched if one knows the last name of the diseased. The Jewish Cemetery records are marked as "juudi kalmistu".

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